utopian literature, in terms of content, includes the dream of a world with better and ideal conditions or an image of favorable and yet abstract (nowhere) world. based on a single main motivation, nostalgia and the desire to return to eternal origin and due to the intellectual paradigms form them, this genre has formed certain structures. from the perspective of realizing the origin and having...

Emotion classification within text has been attempted many times through lexical and implicit features. It remains to be seen if the extracted features from personal narratives can provide a base model for emotion classification. This paper explores the ability of traditional lexical and syntactic features used in previous emotion classification work toward personal narratives. The results are ...

This chapter develops three points of elaboration and theoretical expansion upon Cohler's (1982) treatise on personal narrative and life course. First, we highlight Cohler's emphasis on an interpretive, idiographic approach to the study of lives and reveal the radicalism of this approach, particularly in its ability to interrogate the lived experience of social categorization. Second, we link C...

an in-time vision of literary works in their widespread spectrum is what always leads to the enrichment of literature and is also what helps transform it from a static state to a dynamic one. in the meantime, since the myths evolve and proceed with the passage of time and are always present in the course of history, they cannot be held an exception to this fact. the myths, among the different t...

Cuius regio, eius historia – Macedonian Historiography and Identity Narratives, 1944–2011Macedonian historians by calling upon certain past events perceived as traumatic mobilizing deep-rooted stereotypes prejudices against the neighboring countries sought to manipulate public opinion. It seems that also today many representatives of elite still see fight for position in historical culture a pr...

Abstract The paper introduces the results of a case study that attempts to uncover functions and probable genesis group satirical tales told by Mongolian peoples. Based on example one stories, about Argachi, Til Ulenspiegel-like rogue character, popular among Oirat Mongols Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in People’s Republic China, an assumption is made possible practical function narratives, ...

Plato, as a poet, employs muthos extensively to express his philosophical dialectical development, so the majority of his dialogues are comprised of muthoi. We cannot separate his muthos from his philosophical thought, since the former has great influence in the latter. So the methodology of this paper is first to discuss the dialogue Theaetetus to find out why he compares Socrates to the Greek...